Box: 2 Fold: 33 Laos 1956-58 - Newsclippings Box: 2 Fold: 34 Laos - Photographs: Arrival of J. Graham Parsons Box: 2 Fold: 35 Laos - Photographs: Ambassadorial Swearing-in (Parsons) Box: 2 Fold: 36 Laos - Photographs: Royal Wedding Box: 2 Fold: 37 Laos - Photographs: Miscellaneous Box: 2 Fold: 38 Far Eastern Affairs - James Bonbright Box: 2 Fold: 39 Far Eastern Affairs - Ellis O. Briggs Box: 2 Fold: 40 Far Eastern Affairs - John Foster Dulles Box: 2 Fold: 41 Far Eastern Affairs - Elbridge Durbrow Box: 2 Fold: 42 Far Eastern Affairs - Dwight D. Eisenhower Box: 2 Fold: 43 Far Eastern Affairs - Robert Estabrook
Box: 2 Fold: 44 Far Eastern Affairs - Porter Hardy Committee (File 1) Box: 2 Fold: 45 Far Eastern Affairs - Porter Hardy Committee (File 2) Box: 2 Fold: 46 Far Eastern Affairs - Loy Henderson Box: 2 Fold: 47 Far Eastern Affairs - John D. Hickerson Box: 2 Fold: 48 Far Eastern Affairs - John F. Kennedy Box: 2 Fold: 49 Far Eastern Affairs - Douglas MacArthur II
Box: 2 Fold: 50 Far Eastern Affairs - Walter P. McConaughy Box: 2 Fold: 51 Far Eastern Affairs - Edward T. McNamara Box: 2 Fold: 52 Far Eastern Affairs - Haynes Miller Box: 2 Fold: 53 Far Eastern Affairs - Edwin Reischauer Box: 2 Fold: 54 Far Eastern Affairs - Dean Rusk Box: 2 Fold: 55 Far Eastern Affairs - Arthur Schlesinger Box: 2 Fold: 56 Far Eastern Affairs - Horace Smith Box: 2 Fold: 57 Far Eastern Affairs - John Steeves Box: 2 Fold: 58 Far Eastern Affairs - Carl W. Strom Box: 3 Fold: 1 Far Eastern Affairs 1958 - Correspondence A-C Box: 3 Fold: 2 Far Eastern Affairs 1958 - Correspondence D-F Box: 3 Fold: 3 Far Eastern Affairs 1958 - Correspondence G-L Box: 3 Fold: 4 Far Eastern Affairs 1958 - Correspondence M Box: 3 Fold: 5 Far Eastern Affairs 1958 - Correspondence P-R Box: 3 Fold: 6 Far Eastern Affairs 1958 - Correspondence S-T Box: 3 Fold: 7 Far Eastern Affairs 1958 - Correspondence V-Z Box: 3 Fold: 8 Far Eastern Affairs 1959 - Correspondence A-C Box: 3 Fold: 9 Far Eastern Affairs 1959 - Correspondence D-F
Box: 3 Fold: 10 Far Eastern Affairs 1959 - Correspondence G-I
Box: 3 Fold: 11 Far Eastern Affairs 1959 - Correspondence J-L Box: 3 Fold: 12 Far Eastern Affairs 1959 - Correspondence M-O Box: 3 Fold: 13 Far Eastern Affairs 1959 - Correspondence P-R
Box: 3 Fold: 14 Far Eastern Affairs 1959 - Correspondence R-T
Box: 3 Fold: 15 Far Eastern Affairs 1959 - Correspondence U-Y Box: 3 Fold: 16 Far Eastern Affairs 1959 - Congratulatory Corres. A-C Box: 3 Fold: 17 Far Eastern Affairs 1959 - Congratulatory Corres. D-F Box: 3 Fold: 18 Far Eastern Affairs 1959 - Congratulatory Corres. G-I
Box: 3 Fold: 19 Far Eastern Affairs 1959 - Congratulatory Corres. J-L
Box: 3 Fold: 20 Far Eastern Affairs 1959 - Congratulatory Corres. M-P
Box: 3 Fold: 21 Far Eastern Affairs 1959 - Congratulatory Corres. R-T
Box: 3 Fold: 22 Far Eastern Affairs 1959 - Congratulatory Corres. W-Z
Box: 3 Fold: 23 Far Eastern Affairs 1959 - Congratulatory Corres. Unidentified
Box: 3 Fold: 24 Far Eastern Affairs 1960 - Correspondence A-C Box: 3 Fold: 25 Far Eastern Affairs 1960 - Correspondence D-F
1956-58
DESCRIPTION: Contains newspaper clippings relating to Laos and to J. Graham Parsons during appointment as U.S, ambassador.
1956
DESCRIPTION: Contains b/w photographs taken on arrival of J. Graham Parsons in Laos as U.S. ambassador.
June 22, 1956
DESCRIPTION: Contains b/w photographs taken during swearing-in ceremony of J. Graham Parsons as ambassador to Laos.
1957
DESCRIPTION: Contains b/w photographs and printed photo collage taken of a wedding in the Laotian royal family.
1956-58
DESCRIPTION: Contains b/w photographs taken on miscellaneous unidentified occasions.
4/22/1958-12/28/1960
DESCRIPTION: Contains correspondence to J. Graham Parsons from James Bonbright. (For further Bonbright correspondence, see also Personal Correspondence Individuals Series).
2/20/1958-8/22/1960
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence received by J. Graham Parsons during appointment to the Office of Far Eastern Affairs, State Department, from Ellis O. Briggs.
5/24/1959 & 12/6/1960
DESCRIPTION: Contains death announcement; order of events/schedule for funeral of John Foster Dulles. Includes 2 commemorative stamp mementos.
7/23/1958-2/20/1961
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence received by J. Graham Parsons during appointment to the Office of Far Eastern Affairs, State Department, from Elbridge Durbrow. Includes photographs taken of Parsons meeting with President Diem (Vietnam) attached to letter of 4/4/1960; and of Parsons meeting with Truong Vinh Le, president of national assembly (Vietnam) attached to letter of 12/9/1960. Also enclosed with 12/9/1960 is a letter to Parsons from Vietnamese secretary of state for foreign affairs, Vu Van Mau (12/6/1960).
December 20, 1960
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence received by J. Graham Parsons during appointment to the Office of Far Eastern Affairs, State Department, from Dwight D. Eisenhower, writing in appreciation of Parsons' service as assistant secretary for Far Eastern Affairs.
April 5 & 18, 1961
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence received by J. Graham Parsons during appointment to the Office of Far Eastern Affairs, State Department, from Robert Estabrook, editor of The Washington Post editorial page, re U.S. aid policy in Laos. Includes draft copy of Parsons' rebuttal.
May-June 1959
DESCRIPTION: File containing correspondence/memoranda relating to investigative report by the Porter Hardy Committee, House of Representatives, re U.S. aid to Laos, submitted in the wake of criticism from U.S. press of mismanagement by the U.S. Operations Mission to Laos. File includes information relating to Haynes Miller, U.S. official in Laos who resigned during the investigation.
May-June 1959
DESCRIPTION: File containing items relating to the Porter Hardy Committee report on U.S. aid operations in Laos, and the ensuing dispute between the U.S. State Department and Hardy over charges of mismanagement and subsequent resignation of Haynes Miller, an end-use auditor with the International Cooperation Administration in Laos. Items as follows: 1. U.S. Aid Operations in Laos, seventh report by the Committee on Government Operations (6/15/1959); 2. Comments by the Department of State and ICA on the Report of the House Committee on Government Operations "United States Aid Operations in Laos" (6/15/1959); 3-8. press conference transcript, clippings.
10/13/1958-8/20/1959
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence sent by J. Graham Parsons during appointment to the Office of Far Eastern Affairs, State Department, to Loy Henderson relating to appointments in the Far East.
9/9/1959-3/30/1961
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence received by J. Graham Parsons during appointment to the Office of Far Eastern Affairs, State Department, from John D. Hickerson. Includes copies of memoranda from both Parsons and Hickerson to Loy Henderson. All relating to personnel appointments.
February 8, 1961
DESCRIPTION: Invitation card and typed directions to reception held by President and Mrs. Kennedy.
4/28/1958-2/17/1961
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence received by J. Graham Parsons during appointment to the Office of Far Eastern Affairs, State Department, from Douglas MacArthur II. Includes carbon from Parsons to Mrs. MacArthur. Also correspondence from exchanged with Loy Henderson. All regarding personnel appointments.
4/15/1959-7/13/1960
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence received by J. Graham Parsons during appointment to the Office of Far Eastern Affairs, State Department, from Walter P. McConaughy regarding activities at his posts as U.S. ambassador to Burma and Korea.
1/17/1961-3/22/1963
DESCRIPTION: File relating to the Porter Hardy Committee report (see folder 2:44-2:45), specifically pertaining to Edward T. McNamara, public works officer at U.S. Operations Mission in Laos, accused of accepting bribes. Includes statements by J. Graham Parsons; correspondence/memoranda exchanged with Victor C. Woerheide, U.S. Justice Department; Elden B. Erickson, U.S. consulate general, Japan; Gordon Messegee; John Dean; William Owen.
May 1963
DESCRIPTION: File relating to the Porter Hardy Committee investigative report on U.S. aid operations to Laos, specifically pertaining to lawsuit brought by Haynes Miller against Time-Life, Inc. on grounds that the latter published inaccurate information regarding Miller's resignation from post as an auditor for the International Cooperation Administration in Laos in 1959. Includes correspondence with Philip Crowe and William Owen and court summary/report of the case.
6/1/1959-1/26/1961
DESCRIPTION: File of correspondence exchanged between J. Graham Parsons and Edwin O. Reischauer, director, Harvard-Yenching Institute, Cambridge, Mass., re 28th Annual Couchiching Conference, Geneva Park, Lake Couchiching, Ontario, Canada (8/14/1959) and Canadian-U.S. policy towards Asia. Includes TLS from Douglas MacArthur II to Parsons (12/9/1960); and carbon from Parsons to Walter McConaughy.
1/28/1961-3/15/1961
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence to J. Graham Parsons from Dean Rusk regarding Brig. Gen. Ed Lansdale, USAF; meeting of John M. Steeves and Mrs. Thada Nishiyama, wife of Japanese minister counselor; and to Parsons' appointment as U.S. ambassador to Sweden.
2/19/1965-4/15/1970
DESCRIPTION: File concerning section of a book by Arthur Schlesinger on John F. Kennedy, concerning policy of the administration towards Laos. Eventually published under the title: "A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House" (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965). File includes correspondence exchanged between J. Graham Parsons and Winthrop W. Brown; Samuel D. Berger; Charles Stevenson; and author Peter Poole (1970).
7/10/1958-3/17/1960
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence exchanged with Horace Smith, U.S. ambassador to Laos (1958-60) re personnel appointments.
1/5/1958-2/15/1961
DESCRIPTION: Contains correspondence exchanged with John Steeves re CINCPAC. Includes memorandum to Dean Rusk re meeting with Akira Nishiyama, charge d'affaires, Japanese embassy (February 1961; see also file on Dean Rusk 2:54).
8/29/1958-9/12/1958
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence with Carl W. Strom, U.S. ambassador to Cambodia re personnel matters at that post.
1958
DESCRIPTION: Personal/professional correspondence received/sent by J. Graham Parsons during appointment as deputy assistant secretary for Far Eastern Affairs, U.S. State Department, Washington, D.C. Includes correspondence from the following: Hurst R. Anderson (pres., American University, Washington, D.C.); George A. Armstrong; Hamilton Fish Armstrong with attached carbons to Horace H. Smith; Ray Atherton; Leonard Lee Bacon; James C. Baird, Jr.; Jules Bassin; Wendell Blancke; Robert Blum (dir., Asia Foundation, San Francisco); William D. Boulton; Eugene Braderman; Monroe Burke; Homer Byington; John M. Cabot; William T. Carpenter; Selden Chapin; Christian Chapin; Choi Duk Shin (Korean delegate to UN Commission for Unification and Rehabilitation of Korea); Robert G. Cleveland; Harold J. Coolidge (exec. dir., National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council.
1958
DESCRIPTION: Personal/professional correspondence received/sent by J. Graham Parsons during appointment as deputy assistant secretary of Far Eastern Affairs, U.S. State Department, Washington, D.C. Includes correspondence from the following: John G. Dean; Everett M. Dirksen; Howard Donovan; Edmund J. Dorsz; Walter Dowling; Everett F. Drumbright; Hugh Dunn (Australian delegate to UN Commission for Unification and Rehabilitation of Korea); S. Max Finger; Andrew Foster; Howard Fyfe.
1958
DESCRIPTION: Personal/professional correspondence received/sent by J. Graham Parsons during appointment as deputy assistant secretary of Far Eastern Affairs, U.S. State Department, Washington, D.C. Includes correspondence from the following: Robert C. Hill; Howard P. Jones; Walter H. Judd; Randolph Kidder; Ridgway Knight; Eric Kocher; Wolf Ladejinsky; William R. Langdon; William Leonhart; Frederick B. Lyon.
1958
DESCRIPTION: Personal/professional correspondence received/sent by J. Graham Parsons during appointment as deputy assistant secretary for Far Eastern Affairs, U.S. State Department. Includes correspondence from the following: Herbert C. McWilliams; Philip W. Manhard; Koto Matsudara (permanent representative of Japan to the United Nations); H. Freeman Matthews; Livingston T. Merchant; Gordon H. Messegee; Brewster Morris; Raymond T. Moyer (regional dir. for Far East, International Cooperation Administration).
1958
DESCRIPTION: Personal/professional correspondence received/sent by J. Graham Parsons during appointment as deputy assistant secretary for Far Eastern Affairs, U.S. State Department. Includes correspondence from the following: Joseph Palmer II; James K. Penfield; Richard B. Peters; Avery F. Peterson; James B. Pilcher; Donald L. Ranard; Hayden Raynor; W. Garland Richardson; Rockefeller, John D. III (memorandum re visit to Laos).
1958
DESCRIPTION: Personal/professional correspondence received/sent by J. Graham Parsons during appointment as deputy assistant secretary for Far Eastern Affairs, U.S. State Department. Includes correspondence from the following: William J. Sebald; William J. Sheppard; Brig. Gen. Dale O. Smith (commander 313th Air Division, Pacific Air Forces); Horace H. Smith; In-Sang Song (Korean minister of reconstruction); Francis L. Spalding; James B. Stewart; Robert Burgess Stewart; Carl W. Strom; Howard Trivers; T.S. Tsui (counselor, Chinese embassy in Washington); S. Roger Tyler.
1958
DESCRIPTION: Personal/professional correspondence received/sent by J. Graham Parsons during appointment as deputy assistant secretary for Far Eastern Affairs, U.S. State Department. Includes correspondence from the following: Harold C. Vedeler (U.S. Mission to the International Atomic Energy Agency, U.S. embassy, Vienna); Frank A. Waring; T. Eliot Weil; Robert L. Whitaker; Francis O. Wilcox; Walter Williams; Elmer Yelton.
1959
DESCRIPTION: Personal/professional correspondence received/sent by J. Graham Parsons during appointment as deputy assistant/assistant secretary for Far Eastern Affairs, U.S. State Department. Includes correspondence from the following: George V. Allen; John M. Allison; Hamilton Fish Armstrong; Willis C. Armstrong; James Barrington; Howard Beale (Australian ambassador to U.S.); Lawrence H. Berlin; Lampton Berry; Charles E. Bohlen; William D. Boulton; Winthrop G. Brown; Robert Burns; Homer Byington; Philip K. Crowe.
1959
DESCRIPTION: Personal/professional correspondence received/sent by J. Graham Parsons during appointment as deputy assistant/assistant secretary for Far Eastern Affairs, U.S. State Department. Includes correspondence from the following: Olcott H. Deming; Walter C. Dowling; John Foster Dulles (carbon from Parsons); Elbridge Durbrow; Edward J. Findley; John W. Ford; Andrew B. Foster.
1959
DESCRIPTION: Personal/professional correspondence received/sent by J. Graham Parsons during appointment as deputy assistant/assistant secretary for Far Eastern Affairs, U.S. State Department. Includes correspondence from the following: re application for appointment to U.S. Information Agency by Fitzhugh Green; Joseph Grew; Pyo Wook Han (Korean minister to U.S.); Porter Hardy, Jr. re Laos; Robert C. Hill; John W. Holmes; John B. Holt; Stanley K. Hornbeck; Harold B. Hoskins (dir. Foreign Service Institute).
1959
DESCRIPTION: Personal/professional correspondence received/sent by J. Graham Parsons during appointment as deputy assistant/assistant secretary for Far Eastern Affairs. Includes correspondence with Max S. Johnson; U. Alexis Johnson, Walter H. Judd, Peyton Kerr, and a eulogy by Parsons for Richard Lamb, Foreign Service colleague.
1959
DESCRIPTION: Personal/professional correspondence received/sent by J. Graham Parsons during appointment as deputy assistant/assistant secretary for Far Eastern Affairs. Includes correspondence with Roy Melbourne, Livingston T. Merchant, Takeo Miki (member, House of Representatives, Tokyo), Robert Murphy, Walter Nash, James O. Sullivan, George Ourfalian.
1959
DESCRIPTION: Personal/professional correspondence received/sent by J. Graham Parsons during appointment as deputy assistant/assistant secretary for Far Eastern Affairs, U.S. State Department. Includes correspondence from the following: Howard L. Parsons; Avery F. Peterson; Walter S. Robertson.
1959
DESCRIPTION: Personal/professional correspondence received/sent by J. Graham Parsons during appointment as deputy assistant/assistant secretary for Far Eastern Affairs. Includes correspondence with Frederick G. Reinhardt, Phoui Sananikone (prime minister, Laos); William J. Sebald; Horace H. Smith; Son Sann (deputy prime minister and minister of foreign affairs, Cambodia); Philip D. Sprouse; John L. Stegmaier; William C. Trimble.
1959
DESCRIPTION: Personal/professional correspondence received/sent by J. Graham Parsons during appointment as deputy assistant/assistant secretary for Far Eastern Affairs. Includes correspondence with Frank Waring; You Chang Yang (Korean ambassador to U.S.).
1959
DESCRIPTION: Personal/professional correspondence congratulating J. Graham Parsons on appointment as assistant secretary for Far Eastern Affairs, U.S. State Department. Includes correspondence to/from the following: Ward P. Allen; George Alexander Armstrong; Koichiro Asakai (Japanese ambassador to U.S.); Robert E. Barbour; Jules Bassin; Samuel D. Berger; James Bonbright; Philip W. Bonsal; Peter M. Boulton; Ellis O. Briggs; Winthrop G. Brown; Choi Duk Shin (Korean ambassador); Andrew V. Corry; Leon L. Cowles; Philip K. Crowe. Includes stapled packet of congratulations from Homer Byington; Walter Dowling; Douglas MacArthur II; Sam P. Gilstrap; William Leonhart; Ben H. Thibodeaux.
1959
DESCRIPTION: Personal/professional correspondence congratulating J. Graham Parsons on appointment as assistant secretary for Far Eastern Affairs, U.S. State Department. Includes correspondence from the following (w/ acknowledgments): Arthur Denning (commissioner, New South Wales Government Office, New York); John De Noia; Ben F. Dixon; George W. Edman; George H. Emery.
1959
DESCRIPTION: Personal/professional correspondence congratulating J. Graham Parsons on appointment as assistant secretary for Far Eastern Affairs, U.S. State Department. Includes correspondence from the following (w/ acknowledgments): Cecil W. Gray; Joseph Grew; Christian Herter; John D. Hickerson; Warren S. Hunsberger.
1959
DESCRIPTION: Personal/professional correspondence congratulating J. Graham Parsons on appointment as assistant secretary for Far Eastern Affairs, U.S. State Department. Includes correspondence from the following (w/ acknowledgments): James Jacobson (vice president Chase Manhattan Bank, New York); John D. Jernegan; G. Lewis Jones; Okinori Kaya (member, House of Representatives, Japan); David McK. Key; Randolph A. Kidder; William R. Langdon; Daly C. Lavergne; Edward P. Lawton.
1959
DESCRIPTION: Personal/professional correspondence congratulating J. Graham Parsons on appointment as assistant secretary for Far Eastern Affairs, U.S. State Department. Includes correspondence from the following (w/ acknowledgments): Edward P. Maffitt; H. Freeman Matthews; Roy Melbourne; Livingston T. Merchant; George A. Morgan; Raymond T. Moyer; Acosta Nichols; Howard L. Parsons; Donald M. Pearson; Nikola Perazic; Avery F. Peterson; Henry V. Poor.
1959
DESCRIPTION: Personal/professional correspondence congratulating J. Graham Parsons on appointment as assistant secretary for Far Eastern Affairs, U.S. State Department. Includes correspondence from the following (w/ acknowledgments): Karl L. Rankin; W. Garland Richardson; John Rockefeller; Walter Kenneth Scott; William J. Sebald; H. Alexander Smith; Philip D. Sprouse; John M. Steeves; Walter F. Stettner; Carl W. Strom; Henry J. Taylor.
1959
DESCRIPTION: Personal/professional correspondence congratulating J. Graham Parsons on appointment as assistant secretary for Far Eastern Affairs, U.S. State Department. Includes correspondence from the following (w/ acknowledgments): Frank A. Waring; Francis T. Williamson; Joseph J. Wolf; Robert F. Woodward; George K.C. Yeh (ambassador of the Republic of China/Taiwan).
1959
DESCRIPTION: Personal/professional correspondence congratulating J. Graham Parsons on appointment as assistant secretary for Far Eastern Affairs, U.S. State Department. Unidentified correspondence.
1960
DESCRIPTION: Personal/professional correspondence received/sent by J. Graham Parsons during appointment as assistant secretary for Far Eastern Affairs, U.S. State Department. Includes correspondence from the following: Mrs. George M. Abbott; Hamilton Fish Armstrong; Koichiro Asakai (Japanese ambassador); Wendell Blancke (carbon from Parsons); William D. Boulton; Winthrop G. Brown; David Bruce (w/ attached TLS from Ellis O. Briggs re membership in the Brook Club); Ellsworth Bunker; Chiang Kai-Shek (carbon from Parsons); Yoon Kul Chang (dir. bureau of protocol, ministry of foreign affairs, Korea); Huh Chung (prime minister of Korea); Il Kwon Chung (Korean ambassador); Thomas J. Corcoran (carbon from Parsons).
1960
DESCRIPTION: Personal/professional correspondence received/sent by J. Graham Parsons during appointment as assistant secretary for Far Eastern Affairs, U.S. State Department. Includes correspondence from the following: Arthur Dean; Everett F. Drumbright; Andrew B. Foster.
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